South Korea

The Song of the Wind project in Wando, South Korea aims to connect sustainable fishing village practices, the marine ecosystem, conservation, arts, and the social economy with contemporary public art integral to the fishing village. Artists, ecological activists, and scholars of all disciplines whose work explores the theme of ‘marine ecosystem & seaweed farming’ are invited to apply for a residency of 1-3 months during May – June 2023 or September – November 2023.

Antikythera’s five-month speculative design-research Studio will run from February to June 2023. Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds will take part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research building on the programme’s theme of ‘planetary computation’. Activities take place in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Seoul.

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) is calling for artists, creators, and researchers across the world to participate in the 2022 ACC Residency(ACC_R) programmes. The 2022 ACC Residency focuses on ‘the post-COVID-19 era and post-humanism’.

Bucheon City of Literature in South Korea are launching a residency programme of for writers, translators and cartoonists of comics and graphic novels. The residency is for writers and artists who live in member cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network or who have been recommended by the Creative Cites offices. It will run over 7 weeks.

DongGang International Photo Festival invites you to submit your work for its 20th edition, to be held this year from 22 July – 9 October 2022 in Yeongwol, South Korea. One artist or team will be awarded as Artist of the Year and invited to attend the opening of the festival.

The ACC_Research Fellow Programme 2022 welcomes domestic and foreign applicants who wish to conduct a research on Asian culture to broaden humanistic discourse and cultural horizons. This programme will run for between two and three months from 20 June – 31 October 2022.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency program in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following formats: photography, video, installation, sculpture, or sound. The theme for 2022 is ‘The Open World, and Beyond’. 

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is hosting an international research programme for museum professionals. The programme will run for 10 weeks from 29 September - 8 December 2022.

For its tenth edition, the 2022 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale aims to create a new discourse in nature art around the rewilding of nature and art, and calls for artworks under the theme of ‘Again, Multiplicities of Rewilding’. Artists can submit model drawings that will be presented at the 2021 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Project Exhibition, running 28 August - 31 October 2021, with selected projects then supported to be fully realised in 2022.

Wonju City of Literature offers a chance for writers from cities of literature to come to Wonju and stay in Toji Cultural Centre for its very first Residency programme, as an international level contribution to the cities of literature sub-network, designed to promote the understanding and the friendship of cities of literature. 

The Summer Sessions are short-term international art and technology residencies for emerging artists and designers. Artists and designers working with art and technology are eligible to apply if they are under the age of 35 and/or have graduated within the past five years, and live in a country where there is a Summer Sessions sponsoring partner (Netherlands, Taiwan, Spain, Austria, Russia, China, South Korea, Croatia and Belgium). Each Summer Sessions residency lasts approximately eight weeks and takes place between July and September.